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Hurricane Archive

Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

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The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

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Interview with a waiter on his experience working before and after Hurricane Katrina.

French Quarter…

This is an interview that I did with two young boys who masked as Mardi Gras indians for their first time in February 2008. They are part of the effort to keep the Mardi Gras indian tradition alive after Hurrican…

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A brief power point outlining Plan B\'s role after the Hurricane.

Plan B Power Point

The attached document is a list of all Circle, Inc. levee projects in Louisiana from the mid-1990s through 2008. In order to view 102 images documenting such work, use the keyword kmpyburn as a search term in the…

Louisiana Levee…

This is an interview with a Veteran\'s Affairs Police Officer who was working at the VA Hospital in New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Hospital

Until Katrina my wife and I always celebrated our wedding anniversies in New Orleans at the same hotel in the French Quarter.\r\nWe are not certain but we believe we were there during what must have been a small…

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Article written for Realtor Magazine about several realtors who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.

Survival Story of…

i was so devastated when hurricane katrina hit i lost my favorite teddy bear and my dog i also lost my husband of 5 days and the love of my life my kitchen table now i have to find a whole new way of living without the…

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Hurricane katria was the most devastating hurricane in history,I mean all them live that was found dead after the hurricane it was just so sad seeing it on tv

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Fun Fun!\r\nSubmitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/05/2008 - 2:27am.\r\nMy gf is from up north and I dragged her to the festival not knowing what we were in store for being the first year. We got there early, listened to the…

Fun, Fun

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